Subject: Newsletter TC11/2001#01
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:30:13 +0000
From: Lambert Schomaker
To: tc-11@baseline.cogsci.kun.nl
Dear TC-11 researcher,
although it is a little bit late, I want to wish you all
a happy new year and lots of luck with your endeavors.
Here are some items of potential interest:
1* TC-11 has a new title! "Reading Systems" approved by IAPR GB
2* positions available at DFKI Germany
3* position at ATR Japan
4* PhD positions for foreigners, Japan
5* web stuff: geometry, wavelets
6* change of address of your chairman
---------------------------------------------------------------------
1* TC-11 title. Result of GB voting, by way of Karl Tombre:
The Governing Board voting on the name change for Technical Committee 11
is now complete (the deadline for receiving the votes was January 12).
Summary of the results of the majority vote on the name change of TC11
Voters: 51
Votes received by the deadline (January 12, 2001): 31
Required majority: 26
Votes in favor of the change of the TC11 name to "Reading Systems" 30
Votes against the change of the TC11 name to "Reading Systems" 0
Abstentions on the change of the TC11 name to "Reading Systems" 1
Majority has been secured on the
change of the TC11 name to "Reading Systems".
-o-o-o-
This is very good news! I would like to thank the IAPR Governing Board
and Karl Tombre in particular for their involvement in the voting
procedure. The web site will be updated accordingly!
---------------------------------------------------------------------
2* Several job positions in Germany
The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) offers
various research positions and post-doctoral positions in the area of
document analysis, information retrieval, and knowledge management.
Please contact:
Professor Andreas Dengel
Scientific Director DFKI
P.O.Box 2080
D-67608 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Phone: (++49) 631-205-3215
Fax: (++49) 631-205-3210
andreas.dengel@dfki.de
---------------------------------------------------------------------
3* Mathematician (Probability) / Programmer Job Opportunity
Statistical Natural Language Processing
ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research
Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
Please contact: Ezra Black
black@slt.atr.co.jp
---------------------------------------------------------------------
4* PhD thesis in Japan
The Department of Information and Computer Sciences at
Saitama University, Urawa city, Japan offers two highly
qualified overseas students opportunities to pursue their
Ph.D. degrees under financial support of The Monbusho
(The Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of
Japan) Scholarship. Class instruction, research supervision
and guidance are conducted in English; while doctoral
dissertations and presentations by the students may also be
given in English.
January 31: Deadline for application
All correspondence should be addressed to:
Professor Jingde Cheng
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Saitama University
255 Shimo-Okubo, Urawa, 338-8570, Japan
E-mail: cheng@ics.saitama-u.ac.jp
---------------------------------------------------------------------
5* Web stuff
Annotated Bibliography Related to Geometry
David Henderson
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~dwh/biblio/
Geometry.net (publisher sponsored, but there is
enough diversity of information):
http://www.geometry.net/Pure_and_Applied_Math/dir.htm
CREW: Wavelet-based image compression in JPEG 2000
http://www.crc.ricoh.com/CREW/CREW.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
6* Notification of change of address
Your chairman has accepted a new job as professor
and director of the Groningen University AI institute.
Current address:
prof. dr. Lambert Schomaker
KI/RUG, Artificial Intelligence
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Grote Kruisstraat 2/1
9712 TS Groningen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-50-363-7908 Fax: +31-50-363-6784
schomaker@computer.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This concludes the current TC-11 Newsletter.
Best regards,
Lambert